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Factory: Worcester Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain bough-pot, decorated with sprigs of flowers underglaze in scale-blue, onglaze in polichrome enamels, and gilt.
Soft-paste porcelain bough-pot, decorated underglaze in scale-blue, onglaze in iron-red, green, pink and purple enamels, and gilt. The bombé tri-lobate sides are moulded with three scroll-edged cartouches below a raised and out-turned gallery moulded with scrolls flanking quatre-lobed aperture surrounded by smaller circular holes. The flat back rises to a rococo scroll-moulded cresting which has been contemporaneously broken and glazed over, and is pierced with two holes for suspension. Decorated underglaze in blue with a scale ground, reserved with gilt-edged cartouches painted in polychrome enamels with pendant flower swags. The back is similarly decorated and the moulded gallery is picked out with feathering, C-scrolls, ermine-spots and a barbed chain link motif in gilding.
History note: Unknown before donor, Mrs W.D. ( Frances Louisa) Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 15.9 cm
Width: 21.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1932) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, green, pink and purple) scale-blue gold
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
steatitic
Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain decorated underglaze in scale-blue, onglaze in iron-red, green, pink and purple enamels, and gilt
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.130-1932
Primary reference Number: 33864
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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